Our series on the history of the US at the World Cup begins with how the first World Cup came to be in 1930 and a look at the US national team’s international play before then.
Tag: United States Football Association
First women’s soccer team in Philly, 1922
Women’s soccer has come a long way. In Philadelphia in 1922, it came all the way from England.
Philly soccer 100: USFA founded, Cup semis, Bethlehem tops Boys Club
Semifinal action in the Allied Amateur and Philadelphia Challenge Cups. Bethlehem and Boys Club meet in second game of the Amateur Championship of Pennsylvania series.
Philly Soccer 100: Philly takes on St. Louis champion, Boys Club tops Bethlehem
100 years ago in Philly soccer history, Hibernian and Tacony hosted St, Louis champion Innisfails. Boys Club topped Bethlehem in the first game of the Amateur Championship of Pennsylvania series, and more.
Haggis Wit’: Scots footballers in Philadelphia
With Scottish players making moves to MLS, and Celtic soon to be playing Real Madrid at the Linc, PSP looks at Philadelphia’s history of players from the land of heather.
Corinthians in Philly
Stops in Philadelphia during the North American tours of English amateur club Corinthian FC in 1906, 1911, and 1924 were perhaps less noteworthy for what happened on the pitch than as windows into key movements in early American and Philadelphia soccer history.